On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:19:26PM +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > > I can't really think of a single metaphor where float and bury are both > > appropriate though. > > The stack is transparent, so the "float" comes from thinking of the stack as a > column (glass pillar) of water with things in it. So I wanted to float patches. I > didn't think too much about the name, it just popped out. At least that is what > I *think* I was thinking at the time. > > The logical opposide thing is to "sink" things you don't work to work on. "bury" > implies you don't see things, which just isn't true. Indeed, I originally planned to name it "sink", as the prototype script. It is when starting to write the documentation, that I started to feel like writing "sink: bury patches down the stack", and felt there was something wrong. Since I could not find a plausible description involving "sink", I finally went for "stg bury", although I was not very pleased with it. But if the consensus is that "sink" or something else sounds better, I have myself no objection to bury "bury" :) Best regards, -- Yann. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html